Beautiful. Do you know the story about Dorothy Wordsworth and the robin she fed regularly? When she was sick and in bed for a period of time it flew into her room with a worm which it put on her pillow to make her stronger!

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Lotta

20/3/2016 10:40:21 am

I love that!

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Freda

20/3/2016 12:27:56 pm

What a lovely story!

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cathy

20/3/2016 07:56:52 am

So glad you are finding things that bring a smile.

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Freda

20/3/2016 12:28:48 pm

The squirrel and the robin found me I think..

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cath

20/3/2016 10:03:17 am

Two smiles were brought on by a robin. The one high up in a tree singing out loud I listened to on my walk. The other singwhispered close to you.

The offspring, or even the original robin maybe? They've made me smile today too. Darting in to see if my soil turning has exposed any worms for his dinner.

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Freda

20/3/2016 12:32:05 pm

Not eating out of my hand yet, but nearly. They can't resist mealworms.

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Karen

20/3/2016 12:34:26 pm

Having just taken on an allotment one of the delights is discovering it seems to have come with a resident robin. He patiently waits for worms and genuinely seems to like hanging out with his human worm waiters 💗

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Freda

20/3/2016 12:41:54 pm

That is delightful Karen - they are charming company.

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Julia

20/3/2016 01:17:00 pm

What a darling little bird! he made me smile too....xoxox

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Freda

20/3/2016 01:40:46 pm

She, we think. The only way to know is that a male will feed a female and not vice versa I believe - so I am watching...

A robin AND sunshine certainly lifted my spirits today. Hope you get both soon Grace.

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Penny L

20/3/2016 04:01:05 pm

Lovely photographs. Didn't think I'd ever have washing up bowl envy, but there we are....
I was on playground duty on Friday, and was seriously distracted when telling off two rather over -boisterous boys by catching sight of a robin. I forced these two totally uninterested boys to stand perfectly still and admire the robin. They thought I was mad!

It's funny how robins seem to be a British thing - nobody here seems to take a blind bit of notice or often to even know what kind of bird it is :o
I love that a robin comes to my garden every winter from about November - I never see it in summer here.

Great bowl - is it plastic?! Here's another discussion topic: who uses a bowl and who just uses the sink and is it something we've taken on from our mothers/grandmothers without much thought?!

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Freda

23/3/2016 08:38:23 am

I assumed robins were loved everywhere! The bowl (meant to be a fruit bowl I think) is plastic. A bowl and the sink allows you to empty cups and rinse things (I don't have a dishwasher) and yes, that's what my mother did..